Document no. 6.4.1 RG
Version:03
Made by: pela/lisc
Date18.11.2009 / Supplier Assessment
Page 1 of 10
1.0 Supplier
Name of the factory
Address
City
Country
Contact person
E-mail address
Telephone number/Fax number
Emergency contact and number:
EC number or plant approval number of the production
(Vet.no):
1.1 Producer (if not the same as Supplier)
Name:
Address :
City
Country
Contact person
E-mail address
EC number or plant approval number of the production:
2.0 Category: / Fish / Packaging/labels / Ingredients / Additives
Are your company? / Trader / Producer / Packing site / Fishery
3.0General information about the factory
3.0.1 History of the site (building date, rebuilding, bigger renovations)
3.0.2 Is factory part of a corporation?
3.0.3 Please mention other corporate production sites and if they supply Royal Greenland(if applicable)
3.0.4 Production capacity:
- Number of shifts?
- Hourper shift?
- Number of production lines?
- Capacity of each line in tons?
- High Season?
3.0.5 Numbers of employees: / Contract workers: / Seasonal workers:
3.0.6 Area of the plant (m2) / m²
3.0.7 Is the factory divided into clean and unclean areas / Yes / No
Please enclose factory lay-out
4.0Authorisation(Only for companies outside EU)
4.0.1 Does the company have an EU export licence? / Yes / No
4.0.2 Name of the country authority:
4.0.3 Numbers of EU inspections per year / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / Over 4
5.0 Quality Management System
5.1 Is there a documented quality system (own control) in place?
5.1.1 For Supplier or Producer / Yes / No
5.2 Is the quality system based on HACCP principles?
5.2.1 For Supplier or Producer / Yes / No
5.3 Does the producer have the following certification:
Grade/level/Category / Version / Approved until
BRC
BRC / IOP
IFS
ISO 9000
ISO22000
MSC
Other certifications:
Other certifications:
Please enclose a copy of the certificate
If the producer is BRC or/and IFS certified then don’t need to
answer chapter 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0.
6.0 Quality system(Only food producers/suppliers)
6.0.1 Does the company have written specifications for raw material, packaging and finished goods / Yes / No
6.1 Production flow and CCP
6.1.1 Are there Control Points (CP/O-PRP) throughout production / Yes / No
6.1.2 If yes, which CP points are in place:
6.1.3 Are there any CCP points in the production / Yes / No
6.1.4 If yes, which CCP (critical control points) are in the production:
Please attach a flow stating CP/O-PRP and CCP, and a HACCP plan for the product(s) requested.
6.2 Traceability system
6.2.1 Please briefly describe the traceability system?
6.2.2 To what step in supply chain is it possible to trace back to?
6.2.3 Please define a typical batch, e.g., 1 production day xx kg?
6.2.4 How fast are you able to trace product back to production in case ofrapid alert? (incl. ingredients /additive /packaging)? / more then 3 days3 days2 days1,5 day24 hours12 hours6 hoursFaste then 6 hours
6.3 Calibrations and maintenance
Are there written procedures in place for calibration of the following where applicable:
6.3.1 Weigh scales/checkweighs / Not relevant
Yes No
6.3.2 Temperature probes: / Not relevant
Yes No
6.3.3 Fridge/Freezer temperature gauges? / Not relevant
Yes No
6.3.4 How often are weights/scales controlled? / Daily
Weekly
Monthly
6 Month
Yearly
Not controlled
Not relevant
6.3.5 How often is Thermometer controlled? / Daily
Weekly
Monthly
6 Month
Yearly
Not controlled
Not relevant
6.4 Maintenance and validation
6.4.1 Is there a planned maintenance procedurein place? / Yes / No
6.4.2 Please briefly describe the procedureand frequency of main maintenance times.
6.4.3 Is validation of new equipment done in HACCP team? / Yes / No
6.5 NONCONFORMING PRODUCTS AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS
6.5.1 Does the company have procedures for recording complaints, undertakinginvestigations and trend analysis? / Yes / No
6.5.2 Briefly describe the procedure for the control of non conforming products and corrective actions?
6.5.3 Do you have a documented procedure for product recall? / Yes / No
6.5.4 If, yes how often is it tested? / Every 3 month
Every 6 month
Every year
Every 2 year
6.6 ALLERGENS
6.6.1 Please confirm if the site handles allergens from the EU list? / Yes / No
6.6.2 Please note type of allergens in the production:
6.6.3 Is there a risk analysis for control of cross contamination of allergens? / Yes / No
6.6.4 Please describe the procedure for handling allergenic ingredients and control of cross
contamination?
6.7 Laboratory
6.7.1 Is there a laboratory on site? / Yes / No
6.7.2 If yes is it accredited & to witch standard?
6.7.3Does the lab conduct microbiological tests? / Yes / No
6.7.4 What kind of microbiological tests is the Lab doing (test, time, at °C)? please describe:
7.0 Factory questions
7.1 Walls
7.1.2 Are wall surfaces smooth and easy to clean? / Yes / No
7.1.3 Are all wall and floor joint close fitting and smooth? / Yes / No
7.1.4 Are there junction between wall and floor? (hulkehl) / Yes / No
7.1.5 Are there any holes in the walls? / Yes / No
7.2 Ceiling
7.2.1 Are ceiling surfaces smooth and easy to clean? / Yes / No
7.3 Floor
7.3.1 Are all floor surfaces smooth without cavities and easy to clean? / Yes / No
7.3.2 Is there a downward gradient towards the drain? / Yes / No
7.4 Drain
7.4.1 Are all drains covered? / Yes / No
7.4.2 Do drains run from clean into unclean areas? / Yes / No
7.4.3 Are drain covers easily removed for cleaning? / Yes / No
7.5 Doors, windows, Hard plastic and glass
7.5.1 Are doors and windows made of waterproof material? / Yes / No
7.5.2 Can doors and windows in production area (unpacked product) be opened to the outside? / Yes / No
7.5.3 If yes,are they fitted with fly screens? / Yes / No
7.5.4 Is there hard plastic in the factory (production and storage area) / Yes / No
7.5.5 Is there glass in the factory (production and storage area) / Yes / No
7.5.6 Does the company have procedures for hard plastic or glass in the factory / Yes / No
7.5.7 Does the company have procedures for what to do incase of breakage of glass and/or hard plastic in production area? / Yes / No
7.5.8 How often is hard plastic/glass controlled for breakage(production or areas with unpacked products)? / Daily
weekly
monthly
6 month
Yearly
Not controlled
7.5.9 How often is hard plastic/glass controlled for breakage
(storage and/or places with packed products)? / Daily
weekly
monthly
6 month
Yearly
Not controlled
7.6 Changing facilities
7.6.1 Are the facilities separate from the production area (unpacked products)? / Yes / No
7.6.2. Are the employees provided with separate storage facilities for their own clothes and for company clothing? / Yes / No
7.6.3 What is the frequency of clothing change / Daily
weekly
monthly
6 month
Yearly
7.7 Ventilation and temperature
7.7.1 Is there positive air flow from clean into unclean areas? / Yes / No
7.7.2 What is the temperature in the production work area? / °C
7.7.3 What is the temperature in the storage premises? / °C
7.7.4 How often are temperatures monitored and recorded of chilling and freezing facilities? / Daily
Weekly
2 weeks
Monthly
6 monthly
Yearly
Not controlled
7.8 Lighting
7.8.1 Are all electric light fittings covered? / Yes / No
7.8.2 Please describe the type of light fittings in the production premises?
7.9 Wash basin facilities
7.9.1 Are there wash basins at the entrance to each work area? / Yes / No
7.9.2 Are taps knee-operated or with photocells when entrance the production areas? / Yes / No
7.9.3 Please, describe the hand washing procedure:
7.10 Electricity and water
7.10.1 Is it guaranteed that electricity power is always supplied, under normal conditions / Yes / No
7.10.2 Is it guaranteed that water is always supplied, under normal conditions: / Yes / No
7.10.3 Is there a back up plan if water or/and electricity is lost? / Yes / No
8.0. Hygiene and Good Manufacture Practice:
8.1 Cleaning and disinfection
8.1.1Does a plan of cleaning exits? / Yes / No
8.1.2 Is disinfection necessary in factory? / Yes / No
8.1.3 Does a disinfection plan exits? / Yes / No
8.1.4Are written cleaning schedules in place? / Yes / No
8.1.5Is cleaning and disinfection done by / Internal department / External company
8.1.6Cleaning isdone with? / Running water
Low pressure (>5 bar)
High pressure (>20 bar)
8.1.7Is cleaning carried out during production? / Yes / No
8.1.8How often is cleaning performed / Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly
8.1.9 What kind of cleaning control is carried out? / Visual
ATP test
Microbiological
All types
8.1.10Who is responsible to approving the quality of cleaning:
8.1.11How often is disinfection performed / Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly
8.1.12 What kind of disinfection control is carried out? / Visual
ATP test
Microbiological
All types
8.1.14Who is responsible to approvequality of disinfection:
8.2 Clothes, footwear
8.2.1 What type of protective clothing do employees wear?
8.2.2 Are the working clothes washed by / Internal personnel / External company
8.2.3 What time and temperature must the clothes be washed to: / Time at temperature°C / To achieve°C
8.2.4 How do you control washing of clothes is efficient enough?
8.3 Personal / employees
8.3.1 Do staffs complete a pre-employment health questionnaire? / Yes / No
8.3.2 If Yes, how often are they updated?
8.3.3 Are the employeestrained in personal hygiene and safety products? / Yes / No
8.3.4 If yes, how often is training reinforced? / More then 1 yearly
1 year
2 year
3 year
5 year
When needed
8.3.5 Are the employeestrained in product knowledge? / Yes / No
8.3.6 If yes, how often reinforced? / More then 1 yearly
1 year
2 year
3 year
5 year
When needed
8.3.7 How often are staffstrained in HACCP-principles? / More then 1 yearly
1 year
2 year
3 year
5 year
When needed
Not trained
8.4 Water
8.4.1 Howis the water provided? / Own drilling / Well / Public provider / Both
8.4.2 How often is the water supply controlled? / 1 month
2 month
6 month
1 Yearly
2 year
Not controlled
8.4.3 Is microbial testing carried out on water pipelines in factory? / Yes / No
8.4.4 If yes, for what parameters?
8.4.5 Is microbiological tests carried out on glazing water before use? / Yes / No
8.4.6Is the water treated on site in any way? / Yes / No
8.4.7If yes, how is it treated? (For example, UV, Chlorinated)?
8.4.8 That is the concentration in the water?
8.5 Pest control
8.5.1 Are there flytraps/ killers in the production premises? / Yes / No
8.5.2 Are there flytraps/ killers in High risk areas / Yes / No
8.5.3 Who control the fly traps /killers / Internally control / External company
8.5.4 Which contractor is used?
8.5.5 How many visits does the contractor conduct per year?
8.5.6 How often are fly killers controlled? / 1 month
2 month
6 month
1 Yearly
2 year
Not controlled
8.5.7 How often are fly killers bulbs changed? / 1 month
2 month
3 month
6 month
1 Yearly
2 year
When blown
8.5.8 Are there mouse/rat traps in the production premises? / Yes / No
8.5.9 Are there mouse/rat traps in High risk areas / Yes / No
8.5.10 Who control the mouse/rat traps / Internally control / External company
8.5.11 How often are mouse/rat traps controlled? / 1 month
2 month
3 month
6 month
1 Yearly
2 year
Not controlled
8.5.12 Which contractor is used?
8.5.13 How many visits does the contractor conduct per year?
8.6Foreign body control
8.6.1 Are all products metal detected? / Yes / No
8.6.2 If no, why not?
8.6.3 How often is the detector tested? / Start/end production
Hourly
Second hour
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Not tested
8.6.4 How sensitive is the detector? mm Fe non Fe mm stainless steel
8.6.5 Who controls the rejected products?
8.6.6 How many rejected products are there every year?
8.6.7 Please briefly describe how other foreign bodies are controlled?
8.6.8 Is there a detector/other kind of control for other foreign bodies? / No / x-ray / Visual
8.7 Room temperature
8.7.1 Do a wrong temperature (to high/low) impact your product / Yes / No
8.7.2 Do production premises have a temperature control system? / Yes / No
8.7.3 Do storage premises (Cold storage/freezer) have a temperature control system? / Yes / No
9.0 Information about purchasing
9.0.1 Does the factory have a list of approved suppliers? / Yes / No
9.0.2 How often is assessment and/or auditing ofsuppliers of raw material done? / Not assessed or audited
Not assessed
Not audited
Less then 5 year / 6 month
Yearly
2 years
3 years
9.0.3 Describe procedure of supplier approval (who is approving, what method is used for approval – ex. questionnaire, audit):
9.0.4 Are there any specific demands for suppliers? / Yes / No
9.0.5 If yes, please describe briefly:
9.0.6 Is the site operating a routine supplier evaluation? / Yes / No
9.0.7 How often is supplier evaluation completed? / 6 month
Yearly
2 years
3 years / 4 years
5 years
Less then 5 year No evaluation
9.0.8 What kinds of criteria are considered according to supplier evaluation?
10.0 Incoming controls
10.0.1 Are incoming goods & packaging checked and recorded against agreed specifications / Yes / No
10.0.2 At what stage are raw materials approved for use? / Before production
During Production
After production
10.0.3 Please give details of frequency of incoming controls & standards:
11.0 Environmental
11.0.1 Does the company have an environmental management policy? / Yes / No
11.0.2 Is the company certified by third party? / Yes / No
11.0.3 If yes, which system?
11.0.4 What kind of materials or waste gives the main environmental impact?
11.0.5 How do you involve your staff to secure a low environmental impact?
11.1 Packagingmaterials:
11.1.1 Minimised volume and weight of packaging as mush as possible? / Yes / No
11.1.2 Are used packaging materials / Recycled
Reworked
Used as an energy source?
11.2 Waste disposal
11.2.1 When is waste removed from production areas: During production after production
11.2.2 Please give a short description of waste disposal:
11.1.3 Please write the distribution between (in percentage)
- recyckling %
- landfilling %
- combustion %
12.0 Ethical and social Policies
12.0.1 Does the company have a social responsibility policy? / Yes / No
12.0.2 Does the company have an ethical policy? / Yes / No
12.0.3 Does the company work to the ETI base code or BSCI code? / Yes / No
12.0.4 If not, what is doing to secure fair trade and ethical management?
12.0.5 Has the company been audited by a third party company about social affairs? / Yes / No
12.0.6 If yes, by whom and to what standard:
Remember to include to this fulfilled questionnaire:
  • Process flow, HACCP including all CP/o-prp & CCPs
  • Copy of BRC, IFS, ISO certification
  • Copy of third party environmental audits
  • Copy of third party ethical audits

This product will comply with all relevant and current EU Food and Environment Protection Legislation.
No aspect of this supplier assessmentmost be altered without the prior knowledge and agreement of Royal Greenland A/S.
If there are changes please send an update to Royal Greenland A/S.
By signing the company approves that the supplier has read and will work to Royal Greenland A/S Corporate policies.see:
Questionnaire completed by:
Signature:
Position
Date: / Company stamp:
For Royal Greenland A/S use only
RISK ASSESSMENT SCORE
Product category / LOW RISK / HIGH RISK
Producer category(depending of risk assessment) / A / B
Validation of Questionnaire / Approved KO of possible:
Total score:
Possible score:
Score (%)
A suppliers must have min 80% for approval / B suppliers must have min 70% for approval
Approval (RG):
Signature:
Date: / Company stamp: